mountebank
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Mencken described Bryan as “a charlatan, a mountebank, a zany without sense or dignity.”
From Salon ● Jan. 25, 2024
“I’ll ask him—say, for something I’m writing—‘A guy’s wandering through upstate New York in 1802 and he comes to a tavern and there’s some sort of mountebank.
From Slate ● Dec. 10, 2018
“Fancy language, senator. I will duel you at dawn you charlatan, you mountebank, you mendacious flimflamming dissembler. Bring a pistol and a thesaurus,” he quipped.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 5, 2017
“Some dreadful mountebank in a long-tailed coat will open . . . with a windy speech; then another mountebank will repeat the same rubbish in other words.”
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 27, 2016
Was it not a dangerous word, too closely connected to Hobbes and to dubious stories about sympathetic magic told by Digby—someone whom John Evelyn, another early member, could dismiss as an arrant mountebank?
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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